The monitoring of the seasonal and spatial variability of fishing
grounds and support to the implementation of the international
regulations (eg. vessel monitoring) are the key elements of this
application.

Ship Traffic

Arctic shipping routes open

25 August 2011

Satellite measurements show we are heading for another year of
below-average ice cover in the Arctic. As sea ice melts during the
summer months, two major shipping routes have opened in the Arctic
Ocean.

In 2008 satellites saw that the Northwest Passage and the
Northern Sea Route were open simultaneously for the first time
since satellite measurements began in the 1970s – and now it
has happened again.